Tracey Tryba has joined the New Hampshire Children’s Health Foundation as its Finance & Administration Manager. After graduating from Bentley University with an economics degree, Tracey has worked in a variety of business and financial management positions with increasing responsibilities in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors. These positions include the executive director of humane […]
Pathways to Play counters technology’s influence on children’s physical and mental health // Twenty years ago, our nation’s rising childhood obesity rate was a growing public health concern. While it’s far from solved, angst over children’s mental health appears to have eclipsed it as one of the top public health issues in the country. Both […]
Dr. Cathleen “Cassie” Yackley of Bradford has been selected by the New Hampshire Children’s Health Foundation as the 2023 recipient of the Sandi Van Scoyoc Legacy Award. A psychologist, Dr. Yackley has been a champion for children’s mental health for decades. When she first moved to the New Hampshire she began practice in community mental […]
Following its board’s months-long strategic planning exercise last year, the New Hampshire Children’s Health Foundation is embarking on a new initiative to assemble and use data to advance the state of children’s health in New Hampshire. “The potential for this new body of work is exciting,” said foundation president Gail Garceau. “We anticipate the evidence-based […]
During the spring of 2022, the Foundation ‘s board participated in a multi-day strategic planning retreat and revised the Foundation’s mission statement, organizational vision, core beliefs, values and organizational goals. It continued its work through the fall with the creation of a new strategic plan. The Foundation’s aim with the new plan is to expand […]
With the inception of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), states had the option to expand eligibility for the public Medicaid health insurance program that serves low-income individuals and families. The federal government would pay 90 percent of the expanded program costs. Individual states were to cover the rest. Medicaid “Expansion” was accomplished by raising […]
All behavior is communication, but with children who have been traumatized, it can be difficult to know what they are saying. Through an innovative project, pediatric practices around the state are learning to decode what these children are saying. The Institute for Health Policy and Practice at UNH with expertise from the Children’s Hospital at […]
Alisa Druzba has been named the foundation’s first Director of Research and Community Impact. Her work will involve research and analysis of children’s health data, developing research insights for use in internal foundation planning and external stakeholder engagement, and convening the foundation’s external stakeholders to advance the state of children’s health in New Hampshire. She […]
In 2014, the New Hampshire Children’s Health Foundation Board of Directors established the Sandi Van Scoyoc Legacy Award. As our founding President, the award honors her commitment to improving the health of New Hampshire’s children. The award recognizes a New Hampshire not-for-profit organization, or an individual who works for a non-profit, that demonstrates exemplary and […]
Gather, a non-profit organization based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has been addressing hunger for over 200 years and is dedicated to making New Hampshire’s Seacoast a hunger-free community. Gather’s Meals 4 Kids (M4K) is a mobile program delivered in six locations that provides fresh and nutritious food for school-aged children who are eligible for Free […]